Sign Up
Welcome home! Here at WTMX you can make new friends and meet people with the same interests as you. All free and ad-free.
Random Interesting Stuff
Just for Fun
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
George Orwell named the torture chamber Room 101 in his novel '1984' after a conference room at the BBC headquarters where he had to sit through numerous tedious meetings.
Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia
The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by...
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
Dr Crippen and wireless telegraphy
On July 22 1910, a telegraph was sent alerting the police to the location of Dr Crippen, marking the first ...
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
Ancient Egyptians would give opium to quiet crying babies. This practice was also a popular way to calm babies in the Victorian era, but it sometimes caused infants to starve to death as they were kep... View More
The Addictive History Of Medicine: Opium, The Poor Child’s Nurse - Science Museum Blog
The Ebers papyrus tells us the Ancient Egyptians had an interesting way to deal with noisy crying babies: just give them a draft of opium. This practice was still very much use in the Victorian era, w...
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
In 1457 golf was banned in Scotland by king James II, because he felt that young men were playing too much golf instead of practicing archery. It remained in banned until 1502, when James IV became a ... View More
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
The first child protective services organization in the world was created after the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals realized laws protecting animals from abuse... View More
“The Arm of the Law”: Anticruelty Organizations and Statebuilding in Gilded Age America | The American Historian
In 1866 Henry Bergh, a wealthy resident of New York City, founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Modeled after England’s Royal SPCA, Bergh’s was the first anima...
Sturmgeist
I like that they got rid of Mexico and about a 5th of Africa.
- September 23, 2021
- ·
- Like
- ·
- React
- ·
- Give Award
Random Interesting Stuff shared a link
A man who shot a protected saguaro cactus down with his shotgun in 1982. The cactus fell on him, crushing and impaling him to death.
Fireman likes this. 